Today, they discover the truth about an organ long dismissed as useless: the appendix. Listen now. Around 8% of us will suffer from acute appendicitis at one point in our lives. The disease ...

However, the tissue doesn't have a significant enough impact on immune function for appendix removal to have potentially lasting consequences. The organ can harbor bacteria, and when the wall of ...

From the Surgical Services of Memorial Hospital, Worcester. Read at the Annual Meeting of the New England Surgical Society, at Hartford, Conn., September 30, 1932. Adams — Junior Visiting ...